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[mt_flyfisher]

Picket Pin

Tail - Golden pheasant tippets
Body - Oval gold tinsel
Wing - Gray squirrel tail
Hackle - Brown
Head - Peacock herl

Reference - Popular Fly Patterns - Terry Hellekson



Picket Pin

Tail - Red hackle fibers
Hackle - Brown saddle, palmered
Body - Black wool
Wing - Gray squirrel tail
Collar - White tip hair of gray squirrel on wing only (optional)
Head - Peacock or ostrich herl

Reference - Perrault's Standard Dictionary of Fishing Flies




Picket Pin

Tail - Brown hackle fibers
Ribbing - Fine gold wire
Hackle - Brown saddle, palmered
Body - Peacock herl
Wing - Gray squirrel tail
Head - Peacock or ostrich herl

Reference - Perrault's Standard Dictionary of Fishing Flies

I’ve fished my version of the Picket Pin very successfully for many years. My version is similar to the last Picket Pin you have shown with just a couple minor differences.

I mostly tie mine on Tiemco 200R hooks (like @dc410 showed earlier) in sizes #12-#16, or Tiemco 2302 hooks. I think the slight curvature of those hooks looks more alive than a straight shank hook does, and it produces a slightly longer fly body. I use woodchuck guard hairs for both the tail and wing. (Squirrel tail and woodchuck are pretty similar, although woodchuck might be slightly softer.) From time to time I might also add some fine dia. lead wire under the body.

I’ve had the most success fishing that fly in the early spring, both in the east and west, in faster moving rock filled streams ike Penns Creek in PA, or the Gallatin or Boulder Rivers in MT. Fish it as you would a nymph, or as a wet fly on a swing it can be deadly.

 

[nfrechet]

Palmer Bar

Tail - Peacock sword
Body - Silver tinsel
Wing - Peacock sword over red hackle fibers over brown buchtail
Cheek - Jungle ****

Fly Ter Pattern Bible - Vol 3, Issue 4

 

[dudemanspecial]

George Daniel's Sculp Snack Jig

 

[dc410]

Size 14 - cdc and squirrel caddis

 

[ChuckofWagon]

I’ve fished my version of the Picket Pin very successfully for many years. My version is similar to the last Picket Pin you have shown with just a couple minor differences.

I mostly tie mine on Tiemco 200R hooks (like @dc410 showed earlier) in sizes #12-#16, or Tiemco 2302 hooks. I think the slight curvature of those hooks looks more alive than a straight shank hook does, and it produces a slightly longer fly body. I use woodchuck guard hairs for both the tail and wing. (Squirrel tail and woodchuck are pretty similar, although woodchuck might be slightly softer.) From time to time I might also add some fine dia. lead wire under the body.

I’ve had the most success fishing that fly in the early spring, both in the east and west, in faster moving rock filled streams ike Penns Creek in PA, or the Gallatin or Boulder Rivers in MT. Fish it as you would a nymph, or as a wet fly on a swing it can be deadly.

Do you wrap any lead on the hook first to give it some weight?

 

[goose54cdd]

I'd rather drink some than fish it.

Thanks, Norm. That looks great. Thanks for the YouTube link.

 

[mt_flyfisher]

Do you wrap any lead on the hook first to give it some weight?

Yes, but I only weight a few of them.

 

[dc410]

Size 14 cdc caddis emerger

 

[wbranch]

What is the tail and hackle?

I think it is guinea hen

 

[FollowTheBlueLines]

Size 18 CDC BWO emerger

 

[nfrechet]

Orange Lady

Hook - Single Salmon
Thread - Hot orange
Tail- Golden pheasant crest
Ribbing - Gold wire
Body - Rear, gold tinsel; front, hot orange fur
Wings - Orange hackle tips
Hackle - Yellow

Robin Barnes Submitter

Fly Tyer Pattern Bible - Vol 6, Issue 1